The first is that by so defiantly getting back together with Chris Brown, the
boyfriend who put her in hospital, Rihanna is a causing a thousand feminist
pities: role modelling herself into the kind of cracked, dark mirror in
which a million girl faces will watch their own, young faces distorting.

The second is that by berating her for this, we indulge in shaming — a morally
dubious practice when a mainly white, male press tut over the difficult love
life of a young black woman.